Lightbringer by K. D. McEntire

Author:K. D. McEntire [McEntire, K. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Usenet, Romance Speculative Fiction, C429, Kat, Exratorrents
ISBN: 9781616145392
Publisher: Pyr
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Knee-deep in Walker ashes, Wendy pulled in the Light and wrestled down the heat, flickering into view. Lately she'd spent so much time as the Lightbringer that shifting back to her physical form seemed like it was beginning to grow more difficult for her as the nights wore on, not easier. Though Eddie couldn't see the monsters his best friend had battled, he could tell that this fight had been a tough one by the way Wendy trudged back to the car.

“Rough night?” Eddie held out a cup of hot chocolate laced with amaretto, just the way she liked it, and sympathized as she sank into the passenger seat in a heap. Surreptitiously he glanced at the dashboard clock. Fifteen minutes to ten. Her reaping had run over.

“A whole cadre of Walkers was waiting for me. Near a bunch of people, too, and not a one of the Walkers burned! I swear they're totally multiplying,” she complained, taking the first sip and squinching up her nose. “Ugh, cold.”

“Yeah, well your ‘only ten minutes, I promise’ reap took forty,” Eddie chastised, finishing the last of his own coffee. He grimaced at the bitter dregs but swallowed them down. Someone around here had to show a good example. “I finished my coffee cold, so quit bitching and drink your cocoa already.”

“Mm, thank you,” she said. “Today sucked.”

“Looks like it.”

“I'm in English class, right? And a ghost walks through the wall and right up to me. How he knew I was there is beyond me but he followed me around all day, begging me to help him get into the Light. But I couldn't, right? Because, hello, I'm at school.”

“Ouch. So what'd you do?” Eddie reclined his seat and tilted his head back, enjoying the feeling of the cool evening breeze on his warm cheeks.

“I had to lead him into the girl's bathroom,” Wendy grumbled. “But it was so weird. I sent him into the Light, and right before he went he was crying. Crying and thanking me. Afterward I felt so much better, Eds. The Walkers are monsters, it's important to put them down, but actually helping regular ghosts out again…it's nice. I feel like an ass for quitting in the first place. This was what I'm made to do, right?”

Eddie hesitated. “Yeah. Right.”

“I am so-so-so very tired,” Wendy said, yawing. “On top of everything else, I've had nightmares every night this week. Mom, calling to me, trying to get me to find her, saying that she's trapped, that she's lost.” She rubbed her eyes. “I just want them to stop already.”

“Huh,” Eddie said, glancing at his watch. Part of him wanted to listen to her, hug her, tell her it'd be all right. The other part knew better. He wasn't going to fall for it this time—he'd promised. “You could, uh, try some Nyquil or something.”

“I don't have problems getting to sleep, it's staying asleep.”

He shrugged. “I don't know what to tell you. Maybe pick up a book on dream zen

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